Marie Orensanz
Marie Orensanz spent her creative life halfway between Argentina, her country and France, which served as a refuge during the years of military dictatorship. Her conceptual universe deeply explores issues of sense of things, of language, of the infinite through installations that depict fragments (marbles, sentences, plants).
In 1999, she won the competition for a monument to the victims of state terrorism (in 2004), with this simple phrase carved in a block of concrete “Pensar es hecho a Revolucionario” (Thinking is a revolutionary act.) Her work was the subject of a retrospective in 2007 at the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires, where they found her books marble slightly drawn in pastel, her pedestals of statues waiting for statues, hanging lamps symbolizing the light of the spirit.
Orensanz has collections at the Centre Georges Pompidou CNAM in Paris, France, the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, France, the Fond National d'Art Contemporain in Paris, France, Fondation Camille in Paris, France, Maison du Livre de l'image et du son, Ville de Villeurbanne in France, Bremen Museum in Germany, Centrum für Kunst in Vaduz, Liechtenstein, M2A2 Musée Martiniquais des Arts des Amériques in Le Lamentin, Martinique, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano Contemporáneo de Managua, …
Marie Orensanz spent her creative life halfway between Argentina, her country and France, which served as a refuge during the years of military dictatorship. Her conceptual universe deeply explores issues of sense of things, of language, of the infinite through installations that depict fragments (marbles, sentences, plants).
In 1999, she won the competition for a monument to the victims of state terrorism (in 2004), with this simple phrase carved in a block of concrete “Pensar es hecho a Revolucionario” (Thinking is a revolutionary act.) Her work was the subject of a retrospective in 2007 at the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires, where they found her books marble slightly drawn in pastel, her pedestals of statues waiting for statues, hanging lamps symbolizing the light of the spirit.
Orensanz has collections at the Centre Georges Pompidou CNAM in Paris, France, the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, France, the Fond National d'Art Contemporain in Paris, France, Fondation Camille in Paris, France, Maison du Livre de l'image et du son, Ville de Villeurbanne in France, Bremen Museum in Germany, Centrum für Kunst in Vaduz, Liechtenstein, M2A2 Musée Martiniquais des Arts des Amériques in Le Lamentin, Martinique, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano Contemporáneo de Managua, Nicaragua, Centro de Documentación de Arte Actual in Barcelona, Spain, Centro de Arte y Comunicación (CAYC) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Centro de Multimedia Internacional in São Paulo, Brazil among others. Selected solo exhibitions include those at Art Gallery International in Buenos Aires, Galeries des Femmes in Paris, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes Juan B. Castagnino in Rosario, Argentina, and Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires.
Courtesy of Alejandra von Hartz Gallery
Alejandra von Hartz Gallery, Miami, FL
Roman Road Gallery, London
